Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Sri Lankan prime minister, was officially sworn in as the country's acting president on Friday, APA reports citing Tele Trader.
Wickremesinghe had unofficially taken the role on Wednesday, after the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, after months of political and economic upheaval in Sri Lanka.
Rajapaksa's resignation was accepted by Sri Lankan authorities earlier on Friday.